COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[AlgarveBlu]

Thanks , since march and this covid crap i have had a six week course and this is my second five day course , fourth lot of antibiotics , i am so over this

Hang in their Karen; there's mounting evidence that the effects of Long Covid do dissipate over time with those recovery times pendant upon how bad you got it and unfortunately it seems to be more prevalent in women between 50-60 but at least the data is showing recoveries - there was a good piece on it on News night I believe last night

Be lucky!

 

[Healdplace]

Regional scotreboard is better news today for North West

London 1718 - up slightly from 1646

Midlands 2180 - up more significantly from 1694.

North East 1393 - down quite a bit from 1888

Yorkshire 2745 - down slightly from 2861



North West (now on a staggering 176, 185 cases by the way - far ahead of anywhere else - only Yorkshire has just crept over 100K)

Fell to 3950 from 4531.

This was the first sub 4000 number in a week. Three days of which were over 5000.

 

[cleavers]

when do we go to full lockdown in greater Manchester, is it tonight ?

Last night if you mean tier 3.

 

[Healdplace]

Unfortunately Greater Manchester still ended up with its highest % of the NW in a while at 48%.

Whilst its number fell by nearly 200 to be 1898 - the first sub 2000 total in 5 days - it still increased the proportion as Merseyside seems to be heading in the right direction and had further to drop.

GM also still (just) had 4 boroughs at 200 and above although nearly everywhere fell day to day. Bury came good with lowest number in GM in a few days but it was still well over 100.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Could you provide info of underlying health issues ?

Sorry, no I don't know that information.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Last night if you mean tier 3.

thats what i meant :{

 

[Deleted member 77198]

The chief scientist advising the French government has said this second wave is spreading faster than the first around Europe. Have we just let down our guard? Is it because our restrictions now are less severe than in the early days? Is the virus more infective but less deadly perhaps? Or all three.

A bit of everything mate.

Governments can’t keep their economies halted so feel they have to relax or have less severe restrictions in place, people need to be in work and earning money, businesses need to be turning over money, school pupils and university students need teaching, people are selfish and will not abide by rules if they think they can get away with not doing or know they’re impossible to police, people also get into lazy habits and stop washing hands/don’t wear masks when they should...

There’s no winning situation in this. We can limit death numbers by hammering the restrictions again but ruin/collapse the economy; or we can get the economy going but suffer more deaths.

The balance between the two things is impossible to get right.

 

[Healdplace]

Other news today:

Birmingham rose again to 507 - it is the biggest riser over the past week so West Midlands may yet change tiers.

This was the most today. Manchester - despite falling - was above Liverpool again which has fallen steadily in the past few days and was under 300 for first time since I have been tracking it daily.

Bradford at 307 - though itself well down - was higher than Liverpool today.

Knowsley also continued its better numbers - though only dropping from 107 to 106. And at 3625 it is still top of the Pops(cores).

Blackburn though - which has been running high all week - is in the 3400s at 3427 and could take that lead sooner or later.

Nottingham was down for the fifth straight day to 203 but looks likely to pass into the 3000 club tomorrow.

Burnley and Rossendale were both up too and Bacup (a ward in Rossendale) is in the top 50 worst in the country on the recent data numbers I saw in a list today. Aliong with multiple GM wards.

Will keep my eye on here and Warringtom now it is in tier 3. It has 4792 cases - less cases than any town in GM, And a Pop Score of 2282 - which is lower than everyone in GM but Trafford and Stockport. It had 79 cases today. and its Pop score went up 38 - lower than any place in GM has done for some time in one day.

 

[Healdplace]

Will post the full GM scoreboard later. Nothing dramatic really in there today. Though Rochdale had a better day.

 

[JASR]

A bit of everything mate.

Governments can’t keep their economies halted so feel they have to relax or have less severe restrictions in place, people need to be in work and earning money, businesses need to be turning over money, school pupils and university students need teaching, people are selfish and will not abide by rules if they think they can get away with not doing or know they’re impossible to police, people also get into lazy habits and stop washing hands/don’t wear masks when they should...

There’s no winning situation in this. We can limit death numbers by hammering the restrictions again but ruin/collapse the economy; or we can get the economy going but suffer more deaths.

The balance between the two things is impossible to get right.

The numbers were looking good in June/July... trickling down to 1-2 deaths a day and 250 cases (clearly more cases existed though)... it was within the UK’s grasp to become similar to NZ (absolutely no restrictions or covid in country, no visitors from abroad, 14 day hotel enforced quarantine for NZ returnees), but ‘we’ didn’t.

‘we’ didn’t, lock our borders to anything but commerce.
‘We’ didn’t, enforce 14 day quarantine for returnees.
‘We’ decided the weather was nice and it was party/beach/social time and everything was fine because the numbers were low...what could possibly go wrong.

the 1st 2 exacerbated the 3rd.

And here we are, a divided nation, with ‘some’ partying, ‘some’ believing we’re turning into a fascist state, ‘some’ disbelieving that people are partying... and essentially ‘we’ are fucked - mentally, economically and healthwise.


marvellous. :-(